Editing Shang-Chi (section)

===New Agents of Atlas===
Shortly after the "War of the Realms" storyline, Shang-Chi encounters the Sword Master in New York City, who is searching for his missing father. Noticing the upstart hero's inexperience and recklessness, Shang takes Lin Lie under his wing to improve his skills.<ref>{{cite comic|writer= Pak, Greg|penciller= Anindito, Ario|inker= Anindito, Ario|story= Sword Master & Shang-Chi: Master Class Part One|title= Sword Master|issue= #1|date= September 2019}}</ref> While Shang-Chi and the Sword Master are continuing their training in Flushing, they are interrupted when white lights begin engulfing the city. The two, who are reunited with the other Atlas agents and [[Giant-Man#Raz Malhotra|Giant-Man]] discover the cities they were in (along with other Asian, Pacific and [[Ethnic enclave|predominantly Asian cities outside of Asia]]) have been merged and connected together with portals. Tech mogul Mike Nguyen of the Big Nguyen Company reveals himself to be behind the newly merged city, "Pan", which he states for 24 hours would allow every citizen to easily explore each other's respective cities without any political and economic restrictions.<ref>{{cite comic|writer= Pak, Greg|penciller= Leon, Nico|inker= Paz, Jason|story= The Portal of Pan Part 1|title= Agents of Atlas|volume= 3|issue= #1|date= October 2019}}</ref>

Sometime later, Shang-Chi and the Sword Master are confronted by [[Ares (Marvel Comics)|Ares]], who attempts to take Lin Lie's Fuxi sword. Shang-Chi makes a compromise to Ares: in exchange for Shang-Chi and the Sword Master helping him, Ares would help find Lin Lie's missing father. Ares accepts, explaining that his [[Dragons in Greek mythology|drakon]] son [[Dragons in Greek mythology#The Ismenian dragon|Ismenios]] had been abducted and that he wished to use the sword to kill Ismenios' kidnapper, who Ares believes to be another god. Using Pan Portals, the three are able to track Ismenios to a temple in [[Madripoor]], where they encounter Davi Naka, the Mother Goddess of Madripoor.<ref name="SwordMaster5">{{cite comic|writer= Pak, Greg|penciller= Anindito, Ario|inker= Anindito, Ario|story= Sword Master & Shang-Chi: Master Class Part Five|title= Sword Master|issue= #5|date= January 2020}}</ref> Naka reveals that Ismenios attempted to plunder [[Features of the Marvel Universe#Regions and countries|Atlantis]]'s treasure hoard during the absence of its [[sea serpent]] guardian, but was caught by [[Namor]]. Due to her duty to protect all dragons, Naka rescued Ismenios from Namor's wrath and imprisoned the young drakon in her temple for his protection and to placate the king. Naka further warns the group that despite her efforts, Namor is still outraged over the disappearance of his dragon and implores them to find her.<ref name="SwordMaster6">{{cite comic|writer= Pak, Greg|penciller= Anindito, Ario|inker= Anindito, Ario|story= Sword Master & Shang-Chi: Master Class Part Six|title= Sword Master|issue= #6|date= January 2020}}</ref>

Amadeus later approaches Shang-Chi and tasks him with locating Jimmy Woo, who has not contacted the team since Pan's creation. Along with Crescent, Shang-Chi infiltrates Woo's office in the Pan-Asian School for the Unusually Gifted in the Mumbai sector of Pan, where he discovers a photograph of Woo and Nguyen together.<ref>{{cite comic|writer= Pak, Greg|penciller= Leon, Nico|story= The Portal City of Pan Part 4|title= Agents of Atlas|volume= 3|issue= #4|date= January 2020}}</ref> Shang-Chi and Crescent discover a secret tunnel in Woo's office that takes them to the Atlas Foundation's headquarters in the Pan sector of [[San Francisco]], where they confront Woo and the Atlas Foundation's dragon adviser Mr. Lao, who introduces himself to the Atlas agents. Concurrently, the other Agents find Atlantis' missing sea serpent imprisoned in Nguyen's personal tower, where her magical scales are being harvested to power Pan's portals. Woo and Lao order the team to immediately release her while Nguyen argues that doing so would disrupt Pan's portals. Before a decision can be made, Namor emerges from the waters off of Pan's coast to reclaim his stolen dragon, kickstarting a [[Atlantis Attacks#Atlantis Attacks (2020)|war between Pan and Atlantis]].<ref>{{cite comic|writer= Pak, Greg|penciller= Leon, Nico|story= The Portal City of Pan Part 5|title= Agents of Atlas|volume= 3|issue= #5|date= February 2020}}</ref>